“The city’s promise of lower rates, reliable service and cleaner power may sound great. But these pie-in-the-sky promises begin to lose their luster when San Jose residents realize the city’s current public power buyer, San Jose Clean Energy, promised much but delivered little; they offer nearly the same rates as PG&E,” IBEW 1245 Business Manager Bob Dean wrote in response to an announcement from San Jose leaders seeking to form their own electric utility company. “Plus, San Jose has no idea how to operate an electric grid, which experts call the biggest and most complicated machine ever built … With hundreds of millions of dollars of city financing on the line and many urgent priorities competing for each city dollar, it’s imperative that our elected leaders refuse any more half-baked plans and demand to see the real costs of San Jose power before even entertaining a vote.”